Socrates Quotes
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half
We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
